John Sellers
New Member
I know the unit has parked car pre-event recording, but what about pre-event recording on a moving car? I want something that will given good pre-event recording beyond looping as I want to make frequent manual recordings of dangerous law breakers that I often see on winding roads over the hill during a dangerous commute. The local law enforcement will accept them as long as they are legal. Example was the cyclist I saw intentionally run a red light from a dead start!
But California law limits automobile event video to no more than 30 seconds before and 30 seconds after the event. Editing a video to shorten it might be considered tampering with the evidence. This compromises most loop recording which is 1 minute or more which will be legally too long unless the event happened exactly half way through a one minute video. Shorter loop videos that locked consecutive segments is one possible answer.
But I would like to see emergency videos that would capture the event when manually started almost ten seconds after the event and not go over the 30 second legal limit either before or after the event.
I sent one dash cam back because it only recorded 2 seconds before the event and that was not enough time to manually capture an event. They were vague about whether the issue would ever be fixed by a firmware update.
But California law limits automobile event video to no more than 30 seconds before and 30 seconds after the event. Editing a video to shorten it might be considered tampering with the evidence. This compromises most loop recording which is 1 minute or more which will be legally too long unless the event happened exactly half way through a one minute video. Shorter loop videos that locked consecutive segments is one possible answer.
But I would like to see emergency videos that would capture the event when manually started almost ten seconds after the event and not go over the 30 second legal limit either before or after the event.
I sent one dash cam back because it only recorded 2 seconds before the event and that was not enough time to manually capture an event. They were vague about whether the issue would ever be fixed by a firmware update.